Improvement in roach or bug-traps



J. M. KEEP. ROAGH '0R BUG TRAP.

No. 115,215. `Patented May 23, 1871.

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JAMES M.V KEEP, 0Er NEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 115,215, dared May. 23, 18'71.

IMPROVJEMENTVIN ROACH OR BUG-TR-APSr The Schedule referred to ln these Letters Patent and makingpart of the same.

To all whom 'it may' concern Be it known that I, J AMES- M. KEEP, of New Yorkv city, in the `county of New York and` inthe State of New York, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Roachzor Bug-Traps; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact `description thereof,'referenee being had to the accom- Figure 1 `is a perspectiveview of my improved device;

Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same; and .i i

Figures 3,14, and 5 are like views of `.three modifications of said invention. e

Letters of likename and kind refer to like parts in each ofthe figures.

`My` invention hasforlits object the entrapping of roaches and many other kinds of vermin that infest buildings, which, as is well" known, are unable to climb vertical or steeply-inclined surfaces unless the same are sufficiently `rough to furnish a hold for their claws It consists in the construction and relative arrange-` ment of the various parts of the trap, substantially as and for the purposehereinafter specified.

' `In the annexed drawing- A represents the bottom and B the sides of a box,

from each end to a point near its longitudinal center, and, is covered with wire-gauze or other similar ma- Between `the inner Iends of the sloping faces is a horizontal part, D, provided with an opening, E, hav- 'ing the relative size and shape shown in figs. 1 and 2, secured to and extending downward and slightly o utward, from each side of which is a plate, F, of sheet metal or other suitable material, having a polished surface.

A metal tray, G, provided upon its sides with hori-A zontally-projecting flanges g, is placed within a corresponding transverse opening, H, in the bottomV A, immediately beneath the opening E, and held in po sition vertically by means of'sad anges y, whicht into corresponding grooves within the sides of `said o opening H.

The device is now complete, and its operation is as follows:

The tray G being lled with suitable food, and the trap placed within reach of the vermin, the latter, in their'elforts to obtain said food, will readily pass inward through the opening E; but once within the trap all retreat is cutol, as they are unable to climb or even reach the polished plates F.

Having thusfnlly set forth the nature and merits of my invention,

What I claim as new isl The hereinbefore-described device, consisting `of the box A, B, and D, partially inclosed by means of the gauze C, and provdedwith the entrance-tube E and' Y' food-receptacle G, substantially as and for the purpose specilied.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I vhave hcrennto set my hand this 4th day of May, 1871. J. M. KEEP. f Witnesses:

GEO. E. JEWETT, JOHN F. WARD.

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